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California has almost completed distribution of Android tablets to all incarcerated people, a program aiming to ease communication and promote rehabilitation. Prisoners inside say it has changed the culture, but related costs can add up.
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Will the future be flying cars or robot overlords? It could be neither, but Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever urge us to make conscious choices. Because…
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It's a brave new world, one where new computers become aged and infirm in three years, or less. But what do the gadgets, games, or the military hardware…
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A Medford school--St. Mary's--recently sent not one, but TWO teams of students to a world championship in robotics. A word of explanation first: clever…
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Maybe you've seen those small wind turbines mounted close to the ground in rural areas. And maybe you've noticed that they don't seem to turn terribly…
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If you like those pictures the Curiosity rover sent back from Mars, you're thinking good thoughts about the work of Adam Steltzner. He should be a…
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Finding your way to the bathroom in the dark is a sure sign that you don't need a lot of sensory input to make your way in your usual pathways. In fact,…
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We close the year with some notable Exchange broadcasts of the past. In this hour, technology industry analyst William Meisel makes his case for computers…
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All those parents who want their kids to get off the couch and stop playing video games might have met their match in Jane McGonigal. She thinks people…
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Maybe they don't serve breakfast in bed (yet) as in the science fiction movies, but robots DO exist in our world. Witness driverless cars, or the machines…
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Nothing like a little pressure to stimulate the creative or entrepreneurial juices. Part-time Ashland resident David Vidmar probably needed plenty of both…
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All the big tech companies (and at least one U.S. government agency with the acronym NSA) are in a race to be the first to capture computing’s Holy…
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Not all revolutions are violent. We're reasonably sure the blood loss was minimal in the recent revolution in electronics and technology. "Revolution" is…